Clinton: US May Put North Korea Back on Terror List

In the latest American salvo in the growing war of words between the two nations, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US is considering adding North Korea to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, a list it had only recently been removed from.

Now, of course, those talks are stopped again, and the US seems eager to put the nation back on the list to get back a bargaining tool. Yet with removal and readdition to the list being tied to something completely unrelated to support for terrorism, the US is likely undermining the seriousness of the list in the first place, and giving it the status of little more than a political football.